River News
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Wellington -
A New Zealand river revered by Maori has been recognised by parliament as a "legal person", in a move believed to be a world first.
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Moscow -
A river in Russia's far north turned a blood red colour probably as a result of an industrial accident, environmental group Greenpeace said on Thursday.
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This week’s releases include a return to a familiar neighbourhood; an intriguing action sci-fi; several character seeking revenge; and confused identities.
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"This river will bury the living and the dead," sighed Enver Vasilaj, 93, standing by the Vjosa, one of Europe’s last wild waterways, which runs uninterrupted from its source in northwest Greece to the Adriatic Sea.
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Tarasovka -
A rusty boat crossing a calm river in separatist east Ukraine is all that enables hundreds of people living in rebel-held territory to pick up pensions and vital supplies from the government side.
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Sansalvador -
A molasses spill in a river in El Salvador from a sugarcane processing plant has triggered an alert by authorities worried about the effect on fish and people along the waterway.The civil protection service issued the alert after 3.
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Writer/director Jamie M. Dagg and actor Rossif Sutherland discuss the challenges of shooting in Laos while attending the TIFF world premiere of Dagg’s feature film debut, ‘River.’
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Jianli -
Rescue personnel on the Yangtze River in China recovered the body of a three-year-old child on Saturday, bringing to 431 the number of bodies recovered from last week's cruise ship sinking.
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Khartoum -
Egypt on Monday agreed to a preliminary deal with Ethiopia on a new dam project that Cairo feared would hamper the flow of the Nile, the river on which it depends.
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A six-year-old Brazilian girl has died after being eaten alive by piranhas when she fell into the river she was canoeing along on January 27. The piranhas tore all the flesh from her legs.
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Rixensart -
Staff working at a GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) facility dumped more than 45 liters of concentrated live polio into the water at a Belgian treatment plant earlier this month.
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Shanghai -
An ancient sword has accidentally been discovered by an 11-year-old boy playing in a river in China’s eastern Jiangsu Province.
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San Francisco -
Part of its outreach as an environmental advocacy non-profit, The Tuolumne River Trust provides opportunities for education and expedition along the river, which stretches for 149 miles-
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An antibiotic resistance gene has been detected in wastewater treatment plants in northern China, according to a new report. The discovery could trigger a rise in antimicrobial resistance and hence a health threat.
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Jilin -
In the northeast of China, Jilin City is divided by a river that is bordered by colorful buildings which look even more wintery in their first cover of snow.
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New York -
A Metro-North passenger train derailed just north of Manhattan on Sunday morning and reportedly several carriages plunged into the Hudson River. Four people have been killed and 67 have been injured, according to the most recent update.
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Cloppenburg -
The girl had taken her pony out on Sunday afternoon, but her parents became worried when she failed to return home on time. Local police went searching and found the girl trying to rescue her pony from a muddy swamp near a river.
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My first glimpse of China was at Li Shui, southwest of Shanghai, where I began teaching children at a private Chinese school.
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London -
Thirty tourists were forced to jump off a burning London Duck Tour amphibious craft into the River Thames as it sank on Sunday. While cold and wet, nobody was severely hurt.
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Henley On Thames -
Possibly one of the most picturesque and quaint parts of the River Thames is the stretch between Henley-on-Thames and Marlow.
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New York -
Authorities claim that the second body has been discovered and pulled from the Hudson River. They found the body near where a bride-to-be and her fiance's best man went missing after a boat crash near the Tappan Zee Bridge.
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Meishan -
As the clean up of around 16,000 pig carcasses nears its end in southwest China's Sichuan province, now 1,000 dead ducks have been pulled from the Nanhe River in Meishan City, Pengshan County.
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Tennessee is ripe with beautiful lakes, streams, rivers and natural areas perfect for a weekend hike, with perhaps some of the best lying half way between Nashville and Knoxville.
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Montreal -
She wanted to be photographed in her wedding dress one last time, but as the newlywed bride posed beside the Ouareau River in Quebec, she lost her footing on the slippery rocks and was swept away by the river current.
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The first major review of freshwater lakes, rivers and streams in Minnesota has found evidence of pollutants and chemicals which have originated from personal-care products.
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Delaware -
A rabid beaver attacked a 51 year old Scout leader in Eastern Pennsylvania on August 2nd. The beaver bit the man on the leg, buttocks, torso and hand.
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Shandong -
Police in Shandong China received a call reporting that a body was floating in one of the province's rivers on July 11. The Shandong police dispatched a team of their finest officers to recover the body that turned out to be an inflatable sex doll.
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Moscow -
An act of heroism leads to a stolen car in Moscow. A man who witnessed a car crash jumped out of his car to save a drowning woman and, upon his return, found his car had been stolen.
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Oxford and Cambridge were going neck and neck until suddenly the Cambridge boat stopped. They had spotted the head of a person swimming in the Thames right near Oxford's oars. The video of the incident is going viral on many news sites.
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Bandera -
Along the cypress-lined banks of the Medina River, the annual Bandera RiverFest held Saturday at City Park featured a wide range of family events including an anything-that-floats river parade, live music, BBQ cook-off, kayak races, and more.
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Mark Twain Lake and Dam on the Salt River in Ralls County, Missouri, USA U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library
A view of the Selenga River. Wikipedia
The Kananaskis River, one of the smaller rivers we had to get across.
A coyote watches me me closely as I do the same.
Huangpu river in Shanghai Jakub Hałun
A small waterfall is a central feature in the park
A bridge over the Rouge River
Streams, creeks and rivers abound between Burgess Falls and Center Hill Lake.
Schwäbisch Hall, in the town center.
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SHIPMENT: Boeing 737 fuselages are hauled by a freight train passing by Boeing Field near Seattle in May. Kentaro Iemoto/Wikimedia Commons
A swampy area at Willows Farm
Due to high water and bad road conditions, people couldn't get across the river, but they came up with an ingenious plan. YouTube
Krung Thep, the city also known as Bangkok wikipedia
The bridge lights up at night
The river fills Lake Pukake
The view from a hiking trail looking towards Center hill Lake.
The view into a valley from the side of Interstate I40 near Crossville, TN.
A friend stands on the frozen Rouge River
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